Don't Buy Your Dog a DX7

[atomfahrzeug]

Apparently dogs are analog nazis. I saw this segment about a month ago on one of those "Entertainment Tonight"-type celebrity gossip shows claiming that a bunch of people had reported that their dogs go crazy whenever the Law and Order theme song comes on.



In fact, I did a simple youtube search of "law and order dogs," and there is a whole collection of vids of dogs howling and barking and going generally crazy while the Law and Order theme plays on the television. Peoples' theory is that the high-pitched sounds in the L&O theme excite the dogs.

Which makes sense. From what I can tell, whoever composed the L&O theme had a hard-on for FM synthesis. The whole theme is drenched in cliched FM sounds. And, FM synths have notoriously loud, piercing, high-pitched sidebands or harmonics attached to every sound. This is, most likely, what drives the dogs crazy.

Anyone have any personal experiences with dogs and FM? Or have a dog who loves/hates the L&O theme?

[Elektronik78]

I listened to the theme (without the dogs) and I started to howl. I don't think it's got anything to do with the DX7, though.

[Solderman]

...whoever composed the L&O theme had a hard-on for FM synthesis. The whole theme is drenched in cliched FM sounds. And, FM synths have notoriously loud, piercing, high-pitched sidebands or harmonics attached to every sound. This is, most likely, what drives the dogs crazy.

That would be Mike Post. I prefer the Magnum P.I. theme myself. And I'd be willing to bet the dogs are howling at the jazz clarinet solo, not the tinkly DX electric piano.

[mama.]

wait, they dogs like it or hate it?

[Zamise]

My dog use to howl at it, same thing with sirens, the song sounds like sirens.

P.S. I don't think the DX7 is considered analog.

[nvbrkr]

wait, they dogs like it or hate it?

I think they might want to hump it.